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The 1999 MVP

Derek Jeter was one vote shy of being unanimously voted into the Hall of Fame this year, but that didn’t stop the haters from shouting from the rooftops (read: shouting on Twitter) that he is overrated.

The most common argument they use are defensive metrics, which, yes, are pretty ugly when you look at the last third of Jeter’s career. I’ll even give you that he wasn’t an elite defender in the prime of his career and probably did not deserve to win five Gold Gloves (that award is bull shit anyway).

The other common argument is that Jeter never won an MVP.